tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219561040 2009-06-22 14:21:30 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies Exploring the intersection of the artistic and scientific processes in the contexts of climate change, landscape transformation and biological extinctions, Dario Robleto and Laurel Braitman will give a talk about their experiences as artist and biologist, working together. Both will address questions of geologic time scales and evolution, the digging up of bones, the ways in which various scientific disciplines (and the scientists themselves) deal with the loss of their subjects. Laurel Braitman is a PhD candidate in the History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society program at MIT. Her research interests include the environmental history of the United States and Latin America, as well as the emergence of psychotherapeutic interventions for nonhuman animals--such as the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, like PTSD in elephants and chimpanzees, and trauma therapies for parrots and dogs. She has worked as a biologist studying grizzly bears on the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska and fisheries management in the Amazon Basin, as well as a conservation professional with the international conservation organization-- Rare. Her written work has appeared in Orion Magazine and on National Public Radio online. Laurel also helped organize and develop the traveling contemporary art exhibition Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet-- now at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Dario Robleto this conceptual artist’s work is a veritable mixtape of humanity, and sometimes he even makes mixtapes (and a plethora of other objects) using human bones. It is in the recycling and recombination of material that Robleto finds real newness and hope for a civilization still dealing with the devastation (and the amazing innovations) of the 20th century as it enters the ever uncertain territory of the 21st. When he remixes materials and histories--much like the hip-hop DJ from whom he takes both literal and philosophical cues--his work finds in the old and forgotten a wellspring for new associations, reflecting back our own concepts of these old things and giving us new possibilities for imagining the future. Dario’s recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/Downtown; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. He lives and works in San Antonio. 5389 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219536980 2009-06-27 17:01:12 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies Acconci Studio founder Vito Acconci is one of the most important figures in art and architecture working today. From his days as a poet in the mid-’60s to the groundbreaking performance works of the ’70s to the founding of Acconci Studio in 1988 to help realize architecture and public-space projects, Acconci has pushed from one discipline to the next while always thinking about language and the boundaries of the body. The method of Acconci Studio is on the one hand to make a new space by turning an old one inside-out and upside-down; and on the other hand to insert within a site a capsule that grows out of itself and spreads into a landscape. They treat architecture as an occasion for activity; they make spaces fluid, changeable, portable. They have recently completed a person-made island in Graz, a plaza in Memphis, a gallery in NY, a clothing store in Tokyo; they are currently working on a building façade in Milan, a park on a street median in Vienna, and a skate park in San Juan. A survey show, Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, is traveling now through Europe. 7591 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219515540 2009-08-09 23:31:47 -0400 Work of Danielle Martin Digital stories I’d created from photos I’d taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn’s MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I’d done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School. 87 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219491000 2009-08-09 23:51:02 -0400 Work of Danielle Martin Digital stories I’d created from photos I’d taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn’s MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I’d done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School. 87 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219468540 2009-08-09 23:51:14 -0400 Work of Danielle Martin Digital stories I’d created from photos I’d taken in the fall of 2008 as part of Anne Spirn’s MIT course on landscape photography and audio interviews I’d done with visiting middle school students from the Lawrence Family Development Charter School. 60